After the defeat of the White movement, here gathered aristocrats who had fled from the Red terror, surviving officers from the flames of war, fanatical monarchists and liberal politicians, adventurers of all kinds, and ordinary criminals.
Fate brings the only one who miraculously survived, Boris Ordyntsev.
And here he meets Colonel Gorytsky again, who asks for his help: at the request of Turkish police, he must investigate a series of murders among the Russian émigré community. What do the victims have in common — a White Army colonel, a penniless prostitute, an old loan shark, a black-market dealer?
The answer to this question must be found as quickly as possible, because each day brings new victims and danger threatens even Boris himself…